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My fingers are sore, but I'm hoping to reattain the guitar layer on my fingers by the end of the year. I keep reminding myself that it'll hurt less to play once I play more, but steel strings always hurt, regardless. They sound that much twangier, which I adore. That's the pay-off, I guess -- I'm not really good when it comes to switching out ( Read more... )

I'm behind on the whole New Year's resolution thing -- like, two months late, to be exact. Oh, I made a list. I checked it twice. And then, I gave up after I rewrote it thrice. It's been that kind of year, but it hasn't been off to a bad start ( Read more... )

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(6:19 pm)

The coffee shop that J + I frequent has decided to embrace a new brand of coffee that doesn't sit as well with both of our taste buds. It's a pity, because we are regulars here, and bad coffee at a familiar coffee shop is kind of like when you're chatting with a good friend with bad breath -- the solution to both is a curiously strong ( Read more... )

It's almost the end of January, and I feel like I'm barely just getting into the idea of it being 2012. It could be because the latest big thing at work has been Valentine's Day CardsNew Year's (Western and Chinese) came and went, and despite constant reorganizing, the apartment feels like it has a never ending stream of clothing piles (some ( Read more... )

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I got to thinking about impermanence yesterday -- you know, just how things are always fleeting, always on the brink of when you think, "Oh, I've got this." I used to expect more of it -- the way things change on you -- I think i used to dread it and anticipate it and constantly flit about thinking, well, none of this is meaningful because in ( Read more... )

there's a man with a saxophone who likes to play down on market st. i've been catching him closer to the bill graham auditorium recently. today was one of those days ( Read more... )